On Jul 9, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Michael Green wrote:
However, tar'ing the actual target directory revealed that the data is flowing at extremely low rates - less than 100kb/sec.
In the few cases we've had to write actual tars to tape, we usually run it through a double-buffer using dd: tar cf - /the/directory | dd obs=256k | dd obs=256k of=/dev/IBMtape1n or something similar. Tune the obs values for performance. --Jim
